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DHS leaders, filling jobs on temporary basis, carry out Trump agenda
The Department of Homeland Security, at the center of some of the administration's most controversial and political actions from immigration restrictions to an aggressive resp...
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump Threatens to Send Federal Law Enforcement Forces to More Cities
President Trump plans to deploy federal law enforcement to Chicago and threatened on Monday to send agents to other major cities — all controlled by Democrats. Governors and ...
By Carrie Cordero
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Middle East Security / National Security Law
Why Jewish Americans are shifting position on Israel"I've had people tell me, ‘Things have shifted more in the past two weeks than I’ve seen them shift in the past ten years,’” Emily Mayer said. Mayer is the co-founder and poli...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Mattis says Trump ‘tries to divide us’ in stinging rebuke
Jim Mattis, a retired general and former defense secretary, castigated Donald Trump as an immature president making “a mockery” of the constitution, as he joined a chorus of r...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Transatlantic Security / National Security Law
Americans losing faith in elections as Trump discredits voting systemsThe diatribes are as unnerving and unrelenting as they are untrue: An incumbent president warning that the nation’s voting systems are cauldrons for fraud and ripe for rigging...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic valuesThe setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign Interference
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (...
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In The News
Technology & National Security / National Security Law
Surveillance-tech restrictions stripped from Uyghur bill could end up in NDAAThe Senate’s passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act was the culmination of a months-long effort to hold Beijing accountable for a sweeping crackdown against its minorit...
By Martijn Rasser
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In The News
Technology & National Security / National Security Law
Gathering intelligence during a pandemicThe Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic WorldThe Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debateFor months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
Coronavirus rattles America's national security priesthoodIf the U.S. foreign policy establishment were a high school cafeteria, the popular kids would be the terrorism and nuclear weapons analysts. And the global health specialists ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
Trump’s ‘Disaster Diplomacy’ Has So Far Had Few ResultsAs the coronavirus raced across the globe earlier this year, the Trump administration offered assistance to a pair of longtime American enemies, Iran and North Korea. The resp...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Law
How the Pandemic Will EndThree months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more wh...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Richard Danzig
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Indo-Pacific Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Responds: Coronavirus Outbreak Tests Every Aspect of U.S. and International SecurityAs regions across the U.S. announce states of emergency and a growing list of countries restrict travel, close schools, and quarantine citizens, the economic costs of the coro...
By Richard Fontaine, Ely Ratner, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Daniel Kliman, Susanna V. Blume, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Ilan Goldenberg, Paul Scharre, Martijn Rasser, Kara Frederick, COL Sarah Albrycht, Kristine Lee, Peter Harrell, John Hughes, Rachel Ziemba, Michael Horowitz, Elsa B. Kania, Will Mackenzie, Ashley Feng, Kaleigh Thomas, Carisa Nietsche, Emma Moore, Joshua Fitt, Nathalie Grogan, Megan Lamberth & Ainikki Riikonen
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When fighting bureaucracy means disbanding a pandemics office
In The News
When PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor recently asked President Donald Trump about his decision to disband the National Security Council’s office for pandemics, Mr. Trump said t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Press Release
Defense / Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security / Energy, Economics & Security / Technology & National Security / National Security Law
CNAS Launches “America Competes 2020”The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today launched “America Competes 2020,” a Center-wide initiative to renew American competitiveness at home and abroad. Amid incre...
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Trump administration vacancies pose risk to national security during Iran escalation, experts say
In The News
Speaking from the White House this week amid stoked tensions with Iran, President Trump was flanked by nearly a dozen men involved in our nation’s defense — a move meant to co...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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FBI’s Wray Acts Fast to Make Changes After Scathing Report
In The News
FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered more than 40 changes in how the bureau seeks secret surveillance warrants and handles other matters after the Justice Department insp...
By Carrie Cordero
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‘Our friends didn’t have to die’: Afghanistan Papers surface pain and familiar frustrations
In The News
Lawmakers, veterans and experts have expressed shock and resignation after a Washington Post report Monday unveiled 18 years of distortion by U.S. officials over the prosecuti...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
